Holidailies 2005

Today, I learned a couple of lessons in user interface design. Unfortunately, they were learned the hard way. Or, in other words, I sure fucked up that web site.

When you register for the Holidailies portal you must select a username and a password. They become your credentials to post to the portal. We normally have a few cases of forgotten logins on opening day. This year, however, we had a significant number of people—nearly 5% of the registrants—reporting login problems.

It appears I'm signed up to do a lot of blogging over the next thirty days. I didn't really plan on being here. What's worse, with this lame meta post, I'm not off to a particularly auspicious start.

Holidailies 2005 begins today. That's a collaborative writing project that Jette started five years ago. The idea is that online web writers get together and post one entry a day, every day, over the month-long holiday season. It started as sort of a marathon for online journal writers.